This is the reason I have not accomplished any of the tasks I had set out to accomplish this weekend. A visit to Mom & Dad's in the country will do that to you. Pumpkin festival will have to wait until 2010.

Please don't rain on my festivals!

I had lots of plans for this weekend and I'm hoping they don't all get washed away! One thing I am definitely doing is carving pumpkins with the whole family up at my parents new house. Halloween is by far our most celebrated holiday. Some of my favorite memories are from Halloween... namely my dad toilet papering our own house for a ghoulish family party...in a pirate costume...at 2 in the afternoon!
I will also be visiting the Beacon Sloop Clubs annual Pumpkin Festival (see above poster). I'm quite sure I'll get rained on in the process but I'll brave through it.
The one thing I'm pretty sure I won't be able to do is the Sheep & Wool Festival which is held on the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck. I've been wanting go all year but I don't think I'll last very long in the rain and I want to go on a year with perfect fall weather. Oh well, atleast I'll be carving pumpkins and hopefully drinking some warm apple cider mmmmm...

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Another obsession...SQUIRRELS! And I really love how this plate makes Mr.Squirrel a royal emblem, as he should be. This plate is from my favorite store ever...Anthropologie and it's available online and in stores for only $12!! I of course would put this on display rather than eat off of such a fantastic critter.

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Since I've openly admitted to my love of sunsets... here's one of the best I've ever seen. This was right when I got to Beacon off the train after work. It was so stunning the train conductor made an announcement over the loudspeaker on the train telling everyone to look out the window. I love the Metro North conductors by the way!

Why blog?

So my brief "about me" blurb gives a little insight into who I am and why I'm blogging... something I genuinely never thought I would do. I don't necessarily think I have a perspective that is so vastly different from anyone else's. However, I do think that I am living a life most people couldn't imagine, especially at my age when so much is uncertain. I'm 24, only 2 years out of college (I went to FIT in New York for textile/surface design). I've been working for a company since graduating where I also interned for 2 years while in school... I'm quickly approaching a total of 5 years in one studio! I genuinely love my job. It can of course be stressful and in light of the economic situation I am the only designer left from a department of 3. That doesn't sound so major but to be heading a design division at my age with no outside experience is pretty astonishing and it's a situation I doubt would happen for me anywhere else. As a young textile designer with no means of funding her own design endeavours I am quite restricted in terms of job locale. Unless I wanted to move to the midwest and work for an enormous company with a sprawling "campus", I pretty much have to stay in NYC. I grew up on Long Island (western LI, think queens more than the hamptons), I went to college in the city, I work near the Flatiron building, and I've had plenty of time to realize that I do NOT want to live in Manhattan. Or any of it's boroughs for that matter. Don't get me wrong I love New York and especially Brooklyn, but I also like to leave it. So when my parents put my childhood home on Long Island on the market (little did we know that market was about to plumit!) I made the very hard decision to leave everything I know and all of my closest friends on a whim. A whim I could not ignore. If I did not try moving upstate on my own I would always wonder. So I came up to Beacon... and I have never been so happy with a decision in my life. I basically found Beacon by driving through it. From there I thought it had potential and I started doing my own research. My younger sister (going to FIT for package design) and a friend hopped on board and in the past year we have met people and are experiencing things we never imagined. My situation is not so unique in that I am 24 with a job in the city but that I am 24 and I am willing to commute 2 hours to and from my job to live away from the city many people can't bear to leave. This little blog is going to be where I post about my experiences and adventures up and down the Hudson Valley as well as my favorite design finds (mostly for the home). I use my trusty iPhone frequently for picture taking so you'll see alot of my daily photos. I am unfortunately a true sucker for an awesome sunset so you'll probably get a glimpse of that also. I'm hoping that having this blog keeps me more connected to the area of design I love the most, which is the handmade with love and purpose genre... hopefully this will force me to make time for my weaving and other crafty ventures! Happy reading : )

PS- I will never write a post this long again... promise!

Oh my goodness! My very own blog! Hopefully I'll be vigilant about keeping this afloat.